Tiktaalik was a complete, functional creature. Just like the common seal which can walk on its flippers.
I have no idea where you’re going with this. In order to get through school, a student needs basic skills in order to graduate. Today, some young people entering college are lacking basic skills. So my point is, if you only read at a sixth grade level, what are you going to get out of a college level Biology text? My other point is, the great ideological battle over the age of the earth is part of promoting a worldview, and less about science.
Evolutionism is like a palm reader. They predict in a way that anything that happens fulfills the prediction.
I agree.
Buffalo, no doubt that is why you are not a scientist.
Yes, you are. The deplorable state of education today is precisely why real science (and English, math, history, etc.) should be taught in primary and secondary schools.
“News” reports from The Discovery Institute are worthless.
As you can see even Catholics have a very wide and differing point of view on this subject. What can be discerned of this is that the church has not made a clear teching on this as they are not in the business of declaring scientific proclamation. All that truly matters is that God Created us in his image, how he did it is only a guessing game.
Well said. There is no more need for the Church to offer magisterial definitions on evolution than than there is on gravity or plate tectonics.
What? I have no idea what you’re talking about. None. Just look at any major city. Everyone is struggling to fund schools. Everyone. Programs are being dropped left and right. All I’ve heard for decades is how the newest politician on the scene is going to make sure education gets the money it needs. It either doesn’t happen or only a fraction of the funds get where they should be going.Yes, you are. The deplorable state of education today is precisely why real science (and English, math, history, etc.) should be taught in primary and secondary schools.
See - you are true to form. Evolutionists are so predictable too.
Of course they are. This or that Pope is quoted here all the time about their scientific proclamations. That is why I see the other comments being made here about this subject are more about ideology and less about science. The moment the Church says anything vaguely negative about the subject, some people, including scientists, freak out. If this was only about science, people would not have to quote the Pope.
I hold my tongue…but just for a very short time. That is a good reference you gave and you have an equally good point since yours would seem to be the obvious interpretation of Schonborn’s words. Curiously, the obvious sense does not jive with much else that he says.
That doesn’t make one iota of difference to whether they should be taught science. I’m not the only student who absolutely hated math, but it was and should still be required.
And here, it appears that only the lack of a belief regarding the age of the earth is of any consequence. There are young people who lack basic skills upon entering their first year of college. Only a low percentage of the population knows how to read.
Itinterant1, I guess the ban is not being observed (the ban is why I stopped our other exchange). The problem for Cardinal Shoenborn’s claim is that we have nicely detailed fossil sequences for whales, horses, hominids, and others lineages. It is simply incorrect to say that there is a “lack of evidence for transitions across diverse stages.”
Certainly. I agree in regard to the kind of fossil sequences you are speaking about. That much seems obvious about transitional types. Yet there are scientists who dissent on just how well the equid transitions are actually represented. For instance, one evolutionist said Darwinians are putting the chart before the horse.
